Improvement in compounds for treating- rheumatism



dished tst2a WILLIAM LANDERT AND JOHN DEGGELLER. OI! CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Pam N 102,686, dated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING RHEUMATISM.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent: and making part of the same T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM LANDERT, M. 1)., and JOHN.1)EGGELLER, M. D., both of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Medicine for the (lure of Rheumatism; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invefition relates to the cure of rheumatism and other diseases; and

It consists in the combination .or compounding of certain ingredients, which will be hereinafter described, as will also the method of administering them.

It is well known that rheumatism and its" kindred diseases require very active and powerful remedies, and that they invariably resist the ordinary forms of treatment for a long time, and in cases of long standing, or which have become chronic in their character, they not unfrequently resist all known forms of treatment'and all known kinds of medicine.

Our object in the present invention is to provide a remedy for the worst as well as, for the milder forms of this and other diseases, which will be effectual in its operation and certain in its results, which are the permanent removal of the disease and the leaving of the patient free from the injurious effects of poisonous drugs.

To enable those skilled in the art to prepare and administer our remedy,'we will proceed to describe it and the method of its administration.

This medicine or remedy consists .of four different compounds, but all necessary to the production of one result, the first being necessary to the preparation of the system for the successful operation of the next, and

, so on through the whole series.

The first'combination or compound, which is intended for bathing purposes, and may be termed bathingtea, consists of the following ingredients, and in substantially the following proportions:

Baccze juniperi, one pound; folia rosmarini, one-halt which they are tobe used, consists of the following named ingredients, to be used in the form of pills, a mild form of which may consist of the fiillowing proportions:

Extract colocynthidis, one-half grain; extractaloes, two grains; extract jalapee, two grains; extract aooniti, one and one-half grain; extract colchici, one grain extract toxicodendri, one-half to two-thirds of a grain;

pulv. rad. rhei, five grains; pulv. rad. myrrhee, one-halt grain; pulv. rad. aloes, one-half grain; oleum meuthm piperitoe, one drop; oleum absynthi, one drop.

When a stronger and more active preparation is re quired thetpills may consist of the same ingredients, but in the following proportions:

Extract colocynthidis, one grain extract aloes, three grains; extract jalapae, three grains; extract aconiti, one and one-half grain; extractvcolchici, one gram; extract toxicodendri, two-thirds of a grain; pnlv. rad. rhei, six grains; pulv. rad. myrrhze, one-halt grain; pulv. rad. aloes, one-half grain; oleum menthae piper it'ze, one'drop; oleum absynthi, one drop.

'lhese ingredients are to be thoroughly mixed to gether in any convenient manner, and made into eight pills. 1 v

The third of the seriesot' our remedies consists of an ointment, compounded or combined as follows:

Axungia porci, coloredred with a suflicient quantityof radix alcanme, ten drops; oleum rosmarini,

ten drops; oleum juniper-i, ten drops; oleum caj eputi,

ten' drops; aconitini and 'veratrini, two grains of each, to be dissolved in a little spirit vini; nitrate of lead, fifteen to twenty grains.

As in the previous cases, these ingredients are to be thoroughly mixed, when they may be placed in; bottles or in other convenient vessels for use.

The fourth and last of the series of our remedies consists of a linimcnt, consisting of the following named ingredients: l

Veratlini, seven grains; aconitini, two grains; spirit vini rect.,twelve ounces; :ctheris sulph., two ounces;

oleum rosmarini, one dram; oleum rutzc, one dram? piperitaa, one-half dram; oleum macidis, one-halt dram; oleum salvize, one dram; oleum moschi I v'egetabilis, .onc-halfdra n; oleum juniper-i, one-halt dram oleum' absyn'tlii, one-half dram; oleum carvi, one-half dram; oleum anisi, one-half dram; oleum :etheris auimalis, one-half dram eolcum. fueniculi', onehalf dram; oleum valcria-nre :eth., one-half dram; oleum chatnonillze, one-half dram; balsam peruviani, one and one-half to two drains.

These ingredients, after having been thoroughly mixed, should be allowed to stand for a few days in aroom the temperature of which is from seventy to ninety degrees, when they will be ready for use.

The method of applying these remedies or this remedy, as it consists really of but one, having a se-' .ries of applications, is as follows:

A quantity of the tea prepared as herein described, amounting to from two-thirds to three-fourths of a be denuded and covered with blankets, or oil-cloth-or rubber-cloth, so as to retain the heat next to the person. In this position the patient .is to remain for, say, twenty minutes, or until the perspiratiom flows freely. -During the steaming-process i the patient should drink one or two cups of the tea whiclrhas been prepared in a separate vessel.

7 After the patient has been kept perspiring for the required length of time, he is to be removed to. the bed, wrapped in the same blankets, where he should remain for one hour, during which time he should drink another cup of the tea, ashot as possible.

At the expiration of this time the patient should be rubbed with warm cloths until the skin is perfectly dry, when an application of the liniment is to be made with the hand 'to all the affected parts, the quantity to be used being from twenty to sixty drops.

The ointment is to be applied only when swelling occurs as a consequence of rheumatism, in which cases it is to be rubbed upon all such swelled parts every two hours, until the swelling subsides.

The pills are to be taken about three hours after supper and three hours before breakfast, in doses of from three to fourpills eachtiine.

y We have described our remedy as principally applicable to the cure of rheumatism, but itwill be found that application of the steam-bath will be advanstituting the herb steam-bath or bathing-tea, in

substantiaily the quantities described, it being for the purpose set forth.

2. The compounding or combiningof the ingredients named'in the second divison asconstituting the pills, in substantially the quantities specified, it being for the purpose set forth.

3. The compounding or combiningot' the ingredients named in the third division as constituting an i ointment, insubstantially the quantities specified, it

being for the purpose set forth.

4:.Theycomponnding or combining of the ingredints named in the fourth division as constituting a Witnesses:

FRANCIS Rome, MORRIS HEILBORN. 

